Saturday, September 27, 2008

Not just on posting cards but getting some made!!!! Here is what I've done the last month or so - as you can see, I've been slacking but with our recent move I was out of crafting commission for about 3 weeks!!!

This card was for a friend who is a mathematician. The inside read "and so is age".This card was made from DCWV Spring Stack 2007, with a stamp from a Stampin Up set, I just used some colored pencils to fill in the stamp.This card used paper from the DCWV 2007 Spring Stack, and stamps from a set from Stampin Up.This card was for my BIL, who is in the Marine Corps. I was trying to use up some grey/black brick paper from one of the Slab stacks, and I thought this was a fun take on a "WANTED" poster. Instead of the "CAPTURED" across the picture, I used a Happy Birthday stamp from Inkadinkadoo.This birthday card was for my FIL, who likes Westerns. The stamp is from Stampendous. I used metallic gel pen to make the cactus thorns.

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This blog exists so we can exchange homemade card ideas. Please include labels when you post! Here are a few ideas, but feel free to make up your own: Christmas, birthday, stamps, eyelets, stickers, tri-fold, brads, ribbon, simple, etc.Leave a comment with your email if you'd like to be a contributor to this blog!

I wanted to share my blog "creation story." I was great at creating and stashing cards away, but my friends made fun of my hoarding. I never sent the cards! I was afraid that I could never recreate the hard-earned ideas. I began photographing cards and eventually created this blog, which allows all of us to have a record of what we have created. The title of the blog applies to me and probably no one else who posts on here...but as much as I've tried to come up with a new title, this one stuck. I'm so grateful to all of you for contributing and following this blog!!

A little about me: I'm a stay-at-home mom of 3 busy kids, wife of a soon-to-be professor, active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, puzzle-doer, avid reader, compulsive chocolate eater, Super Nintendo queen, and internet junkie. My name is Julie Schonlau.